Gatoma Surname
Approximately 862 people bear this surname
Gatoma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 732 | 1:23,387 | 3,582 |
| Zimbabwe | 121 | 1:127,589 | 16,979 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Gatoma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gatoma Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gatoma occurs more in Malawi more than any other country/territory. It may appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gatoma? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 406,240th most widely held surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 8,454,230 people. The last name Gatoma is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gatoma live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
It is most frequent in Malawi, where it is borne by 732 people, or 1 in 23,387. Other than Malawi this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 14 percent reside and Uganda, where 1 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gatoma
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